Spin doctors, get your facts straight first

Updated January 7 2013 - 2:17pm, first published 2:16pm

Last year, in an attempt to justify announcing the 2012 recreational duck shooting season, the Baillieu government spin doctors claimed that ducks were in pest proportions and had to be shot in Victoria to protect NSW rice farmers. ('Take a look at the real crop damage ducks do', The Courier, December 28).

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